I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.

One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.